I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.