When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.