Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.