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.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

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.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

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

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