What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man’s capacity for loving.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend’s advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one’s self.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.

A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. “Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man’s I know.”

There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.