A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.