Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.