Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.