Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.