No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

The future is purchased by the present.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.