Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.