Few save the poor feel for the poor.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

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

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.