To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.

He that never thinks can never be wise.