In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Round numbers are always false.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.