Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.