If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

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

After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

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

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.