Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.