Prevent your day at morning.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.