Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.