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

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

Better too much form than too little.