Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.