In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

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

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.