Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.