Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.