"I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out … - Samuel Johnson

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.