In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.