Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

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.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.