Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.