You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.