To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Nature never gives everything at once.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.