All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.