Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Misfortunes should always be expected.

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