I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.