Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.