The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.