Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.