Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.