By writing, you learn to write.
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.