The Most Difficult Thing Is What Is

Take Life Too Seriously, And What Is It Worth? If The Morning Wake Us To No New Joys, If The Evening Bring Us Not The Hope Of New Pleasure, Is It Worthwhile To Dress And Undress?

There Is Nothing In Life So Irrational, That Good Sense And Chance May Not Set It To Rights; Nothing So Rational, That Folly And Chance May Not Utterly Confound It.

I Do Not Speak Of What I Cannot Praise.

A Great Deal May Be Done By Severity, More By Love, But Most By Clear Discernment And Impartial Justice.

Mountains Cannot Be Surmounted Except By Winding Paths.