To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.