A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.