Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.