All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment..

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it..

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory..

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it..

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument..

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest..

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

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth..

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high pric….

Happiness is no laughing matter..

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived..

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..

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter..

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it ….

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object..

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts..

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving..

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extra….

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less..

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light..

Misgive that you may not mistake..