Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.