Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Injuries come only from the heart.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.