Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.