At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.