The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
The noblest revenge is to forgive
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.