“Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.”

“A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.”

“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”

“But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.”

“Words that weep and tears that speak.”

“Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.”

“The present is all the ready money Fate can give.”

“The present is an eternal now.”

“Words that weep and tears that speak.”

“Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.”

“Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.”