Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

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.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.