Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.