Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.