Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

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

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.