A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.