The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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 dreadsul than its extinction.