Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.