A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.