It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.