Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.