Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Applause abates diligence.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.