Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

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.

Round numbers are always false.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.