As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.