Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.