Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

A coward never forgives.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.