Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

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

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.