There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

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

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.