The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

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.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.