Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.