All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.