It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

There is no evil without its compensation.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.