He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.