If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.