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.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.