The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.