Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.