The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.
It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.