Social sorrow loses half its pain.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Virtue is too often merely local.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.