I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Poetry cannot be translation

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.