It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible