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

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.