The business of life is to go forward.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.