Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense