It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.