The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.