He that never thinks can never be wise.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.