In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Ambition has no rest.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.