The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

To forget someone means to think of him.