Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

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