Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.