If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.