The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

The world must be peopled!

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.