Experience is the extract of suffering.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?