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.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

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.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.