As many suffer from too much as too little.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

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.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.