The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.