We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.