Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

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