Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Fame is bought by happiness.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.