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

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

Hope is the best possession.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.