Ingratitude Is The Necessary Consequence Of Receiving

Imagination Is To Love What Gas Is To The Balloon-that Which Raises It From Earth.

Hopes And Regrets Are The Sweetest Links Of Existence.

From Religion ... They Will Learn The Only True Lesson Of Equality - The Conviction That Our Destinies Are Not In Our Own Hands; They Will See That No Situation In Life Is Without Its Share Of Suffering; - And This Perpetual Reference To A Higher Power Ought Equally To Teach The Rich Humility, And The Poor Devotion.

All Beginnings Are Very Troublesome Things.

The Fact Is, That Life Is Too Short To Be Occupied By Aught But The Present - Hope And Remembrance Are Equally A Waste Of Time.