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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.