"The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."

"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."

"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."

"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."

"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"