Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

Duty is the demand of the hour.