It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.