Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them - Sydney Smith

Never give way to melancholy: nothing encroaches more; I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now? Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next year? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.

No one minds what Jeffrey says:[…] it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the Equator.

Partial Quote;

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage”.

Full Quote;

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort”.