“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”

“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.”