Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
