It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.