Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.