Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.