As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

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

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.