Books wind into the heart.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

Envy is littleness of soul.