The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

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

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.