Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

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

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.