Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.