A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.