"If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend."
- Joseph Addison
"A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage."
"And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
"Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."
"We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull."
"Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness."
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
"Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,And stand secure amidst a falling world."