We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

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.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.