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.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

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.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

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