Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.