What we expect, that we find.

Hope is a waking dream.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

It is no easy task to be good.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.