When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.