There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.