There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.