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 idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.