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

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

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

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

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.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.