Business first, then pleasure.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Law dies, books never.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.