A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.