One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Now or never was the time.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.