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.
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.