It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.