Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
We must be doing something to be happy.
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.