In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.