Necessity Moderates More Troubles Than Reason.

Men Crowd Into Honorable Careers Without Other Vocation Than Their Vanity, Or At Best Their Love Of Fame.

Faith Is The Consolation Of The Wretched And The Terror Of The Happy.

The Generality Of Men Are So Bound Within The Sphere Of Their Circumstances That They Have Not Even The Courage To Get Out Of Them Through Their Ideas, And If We See A Few Whom, In A Way, Speculation Over Great Things Makes Incapable Of Mean Ones, We Find Still More With Whom The Practice Of Small Things Takes Away The Feeling For Great Ones.

It Is Of No Use To Possess A Lively Wit If It Is Not Of The Right Proportion: The Perfection Of A Clock Is Not To Go Fast, But To Be Accurate.

Nothing But Courage Can Guide Life.