Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!