You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.