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.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

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

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

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