The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.