There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Beware of the man of one book.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.