Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

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.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.