Strict Punctuality Is A Cheap Virtue.

I Fear The Man Who Drinks Water And So Remembers This Morning What The Rest Of Us Said Last Night

To Inquisitive Minds Like Yours And Mine The Reflection That The Quantity Of Human Knowledge Bears No Proportion To The Quantity Of Human Ignorance Must Be In One View Rather Pleasing, Viz., That Though We Are To Live Forever We May Be Continually Amused And Delighted With Learning Something New.

An Old Man In A House Is A Good Sign.

My Father's Little Library Consisted Chiefly Of Books In Polemic Divinity, Most Of Which I Read, And Have Since Often Regretted That, At A Time When I Had Such A Thirst For Knowledge, More Proper Books Had Not Fallen In My Way Since It Was Now Resolved I Should Not Be A Clergyman.

Scarcely Have I Ever Heard Or Read The Introductory Phrase, "i May Say Without Vanity," But Some Striking And Characteristic Instance Of Vanity Has Immediately Followed.