No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

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

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!