Life is long if you know how to use it.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.