In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.