Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.