Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.