The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

The pen has shaken nations.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.