Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night - a stocking all the day!

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Hell is not punishment. It's training.

Character is destiny.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.