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

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.