Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.