You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.