I was struck all on a heap.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Our memories are independent of our wills.