We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.