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

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.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Nature's hasty conscience.

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

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.