The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.