Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.

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

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.