I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

In books, or work, or healthful play.