All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

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

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

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

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

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