Business before pleasure.

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

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

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.

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.