If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

The business of life is to go forward.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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 friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.