Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

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

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.