A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.