We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

A mans profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness if he carried on his reserve to a third.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason-they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Some read to think-these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.