When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

A coward never forgives.

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.