Keep away from the fire!

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.

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.