Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.