Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.