A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.