The first step to greatness is to be honest.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.