A great large book is a great evil.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.