Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.