Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.