No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.