Some Persons, Instead Of Making A Religion

Always Say A Kind Word If You Can, If Only That It May Come In, Perhaps, With Singular Opportuneness, Entering Some Mournful Man's Darkened Room, Like A Beautiful Firefly, Whose Happy Circumvolutions He Cannot But Watch, Forgetting His Many Troubles.

You Cannot Ensure The Gratitude Of Others For A Favour Conferred Upon Them In The Way Which Is Most Agreeable To Yourself.

Almost All Human Affairs Are Tedious. Everything Is Too Long. Visits, Dinners, Concerts, Plays, Speeches, Pleadings, Essays, Sermons, Are Too Long. Pleasure And Business Labor Equally Under This Defect, Or, As I Should Rather Say, This Fatal Super-abundance.

What A Blessing This Smoking Is! Perhaps The Greatest That We Owe To The Discovery Of America.

We Are Not So Easily Guided By Our Most Prominent Weaknesses As By Those Of Which We Are Least Aware.