If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.