Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.