When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.