Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.