I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.