Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!