It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.