Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb