As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.