A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return