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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.