Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.