No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

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.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

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

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.