No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.