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

Prudery is ignorance.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

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.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.