Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

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

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.