Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.