Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.