Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.