The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.