Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

The wise are above books.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.