The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.