Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.