No furniture is so charming as books.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.