Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

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.