Keep away from the fire!

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

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.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.