A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The finest wits have their sediment.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.