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

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

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.