Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise