To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee Yet who would live, and live without thee

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority