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.

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

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

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

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.