The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.