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The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.

As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, — and, withall, he had so shrewd guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, — that NATURE might have stood up and said, — "This man is eloquent."

I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

The blind see what they want to see.

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.