of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.