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.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.