Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.