The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?