Keep away from the fire!

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

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

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.

Injuries come only from the heart.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.