A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.