If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be very wonderful that their labours, however zealous or affectionate, are frequently useless. For what is the advice that is commonly given? A few general maxims, enforced with vehemence, and inculcated with importunity, but failing for want of particular reference and immediate application.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

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

Change is not made without inconvenience.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.