Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.
The sad vicissitude of things.
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.