Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.