The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.