All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.