No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.