To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.