You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.