The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

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

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.