The present is an eternal now.
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.