The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.