There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.