When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.