Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

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

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.