Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

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.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

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.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.