An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.