To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.