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

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

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.