My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.