Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.