Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.