The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.