To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

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.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.