It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.