Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.