Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.