It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.