“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.”

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.”