The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.