No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.