Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

No man was ever great by imitation.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.