Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

It is defeat which educates us.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.