It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

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.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.