The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.