One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.