To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.