The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

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.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.