If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.