No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.