Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.