If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

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.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.