The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.