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.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.