To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.