Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.