Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.