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

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

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.