The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

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