One can love any man that is generous.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.