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Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.

Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another.

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.