Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.