The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
there is no reasoning with imagination.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.