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

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.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Nature's hasty conscience.

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.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

wit is often its own worst enemy.