Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.