“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”

“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”

“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

“A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.”

“Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”