Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.