sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

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

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

wit is often its own worst enemy.