But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.