Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.