True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.