Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.