Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.