Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.