The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Coal is a portable climate.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.