In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.