I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.