Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Never mind the use--do it!

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.