Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old…

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Don't worry about a thing, 'cos every little thing is gonna be alright.