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

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

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

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

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

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.