What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.