Time,--the most independent of all things.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

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.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.