No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

Be harsh with yourself at times.