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

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

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

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

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.