Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.