Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Every hour has its end.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.