If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

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.

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 a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

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.

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

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.