The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.