“Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”