It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Character is itself a fortune.