When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.