Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Without bread all is misery.

Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.