The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.