Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.