Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

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

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.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.