The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Books are embalmed minds.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.