Muhammad

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

New arts destroy the old.