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

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

The business of life is to go forward.