He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

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.

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

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.