Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

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

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.