My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.