No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.