I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.