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

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."

"Hope is necessary in every condition."

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

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."

"It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something."

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him."

"Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."