It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.