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

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

Happiness is no laughing matter.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.