Everything hangs on one's thinking.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.