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

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

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

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.