No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

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

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.