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

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Blame is safer than praise

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

True wit never made us laugh.