The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

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

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

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.