Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.