A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.