All beginnings are very troublesome things.

Business before pleasure.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.