I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Look twice before you leap.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?