Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
Reflection makes men cowards.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.