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

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

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.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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