No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

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.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.