Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.