The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

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

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.