Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

The eye is easily frightened.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.