It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.