The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Avarice is always poor.
There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.