Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.