According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.