Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.