It Is Common To Overlook What Is

Friends Are Often Chosen For Similitude Of Manners, And Therefore Each Palliates The Other's Failings Because They Are His Own.

What We Read With Inclination Makes A Much Stronger Impression. If We Read Without Inclination, Half The Mind Is Employed In Fixing The Attention; So There Is But One Half To Be Employed On What We Read.

Reason Will By Degrees Submit To Absurdity, As The Eye Is In Time Accommodated To Darkness.

The Greatest Part Of A Writer's Time Is Spent In Reading In Order To Write. A Man Will Turn Over Half A Library To Make A Book.

A Man, Sir, Should Keep His Friendship In A Constant Repair.