Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.