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

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

My trade and art is to live.