There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to...
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few...
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the...
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.