God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

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

Loudness is impotence.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.