Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.