To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.