What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.