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

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.