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

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.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.