This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.