It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.