Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.