knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.