The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.