It Is Not So Easy

How Is It That Hope So Powerfully Excites, And Fear So Absolutely Depresses All Our Faculties?

Hope Can Produce The Finest And Most Permanent Springs Of Action.

Books Only Spoil The Originality Of Genius. Very Well For Those Who Can't Think For Themselves - But When One Has Made Up One's Opinions, There Is No Use In Reading.

Every Man Who Takes A Part In Politics, Especially In Times When Parties Run High, Must Expect To Be Abused; They Must Bear It; And Their Friends Must Learn To Bear It For Them.

First Loves Are Not Necessarily More Foolish Than Others; But The Chances Are Certainly Against Them. Proximity Of Time Or Place, A Variety Of Accidental Circumstances More Than The Essential Merits Of The Object, Often Produce What Is Called First Love.