To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

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.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.