Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.