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

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

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

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

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

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