Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.