Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.