Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

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

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.