I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.