...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

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.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.