Hope is the best part of our riches.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.