Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.