I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.