Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.