Nature's hasty conscience.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

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

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

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.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.