Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
One errs as long as one strives.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
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.