The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Misfortunes should always be expected.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.