One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.