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

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

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.

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