Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Every man is of importance to himself.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.