“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

The future is purchased by the present.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It’s a tragic place.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.