Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
The first blow is half the battle.