Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.