Try to forget our cares and our maladies, and contribute, as we can, to the cheerfulness of each other.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A great provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Consider, sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelve-month hence.