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.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.