Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.