Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.