Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.