Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

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.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.