When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.