Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

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

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.