Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.