In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.