Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Pride ruined the angels.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.