In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.