Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Real improvement is of slow growth only.