A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

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