Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after service

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.