Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.