Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

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

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

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