Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.