If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.