Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Hope is the mother of faith.

Consult duty not events.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.