Fame is bought by happiness.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

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