Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.