Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.