“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

“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.”

“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”

“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.”

“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”

“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.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“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.”