By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

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.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.