The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.