Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.