Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.