Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

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.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.