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.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.