Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

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

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.