Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
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.