The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.

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.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.