Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit