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

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.