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 man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

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

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.