Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

How soon will time cover all things.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.