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

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

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

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.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.