Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.