As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.