A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.