Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.