Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.