Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

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.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.