It Sometimes Requires Courage To Fly From

If Young Women Were Not Deceived Into A Belief That Affectation Pleases, They Would Scarcely Trouble Themselves To Practise It So Much.

There Are Two Sorts Of Content; One Is Connected With Exertion, The Other With Habits Of Indolence. The First Is A Virtue; The Other, A Vice.

Promises Are Dangerous Things To Ask Or To Give.

Our Pleasures In Literature Do Not, I Think, Decline With Age; Last 1st Of January Was My Eighty-second Birthday, And I Think That I Had As Much Enjoyment From Books As I Ever Had In My Life.

A Man Who Sells His Conscience For His Interest Will Sell It For His Pleasure. A Man Who Will Betray His Country Will Betray His Friend.