The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.