When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.