No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.