Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
Fair play is a jewel.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?