Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.