Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
The post of honour is a private station.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
