There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.