Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

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

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.