It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.