Hope is the best part of our riches.
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Character is very much a matter of health.
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.