There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.