We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Time will explain.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!