One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.