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.

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The part of life which we really live is short.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.