As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.