"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

"Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."

"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts."

"I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed."

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."