A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.