There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

The triumph of hope over experience.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.