Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.