We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Human improvement is from within outward.