Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Every advantage has its tax.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.