The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.