Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.