Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.