Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

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