Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.