We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.