Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.