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

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.