it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

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.

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

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

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

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.