Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

The fearless make their own way.