Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

It is difficult to conjecture, from the conduct of him whom we see in a low condition, how he would act if wealth and power were put into his hands

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts

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.