Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.