Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.