Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.