No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Grief is a species of idleness.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.