“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.”

“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”

“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”

“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

“Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ”

“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. ”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”

“This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”

“Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”