The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.