Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.