Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.