Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.