There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.