Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.