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

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.