Malice often takes the garb of truth.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.