But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when y…

Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a S…

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Virtue is its own reward.

Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.