Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.