The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself