Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?