There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

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.