There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.