Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.