“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“Take short views,Hope for the best,and Trust in God.”

“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”

“Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. ”

“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”

“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.”

“I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.”