Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.