Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.