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

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.