Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.