Easy writings curse is hard reading.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.