He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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.

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

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.