“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.”

“He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the heart of others, he neglects not his own.”

“He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.”

“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”