Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

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

A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.