Poverty Palls The Most Generous Spirits; It

Must One Rash Word, The Infirmity Of Age, Throw Down The Merit Of My Better Years?

Mere Bashfulness Without Merit Is Awkward; And Merit Without Modesty, Insolent. But Modest Merit Has A Double Claim To Acceptance, And Generally Meets With As Many Patrons As Beholders.

The Important Question Is Not, What Will Yield To Man A Few Scattered Pleasures, But What Will Render His Life Happy On The Whole Amount.

Books Are The Legacies That A Great Genius Leaves To Mankind

Content Thyself To Be Obscurely Good.