If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.