No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

All promise outruns performance.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.