Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

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