As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

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.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.