The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.