The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.