He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

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.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.