Books wind into the heart.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.