To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Round numbers are always false.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.