He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

The war existing between the senses and reason.