Wicked companions invite us to hell.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.