Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.