We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.