People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.