Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.