That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.