A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.