The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.