It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. - Sydney Smith

Brevity in writing is
what charity is to all other virtues — righteousness is nothing
without the one,
nor authorship without the other.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

It is true that every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue. It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application.