There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.