In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

Never mind the use--do it!

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.