Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.