A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

The sad vicissitude of things.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.