1. “Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping.”
2. “There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.”
3. “A moment’s thinking is an hour in words.”
4. “Comfort and indolence are cronies.”
5. “A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.”
6. “Bells are musics laughter.”
7. “Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.”
8. “Fuss is the froth of business.”
9. “Pity is to slay the meanest thing.”
10. “Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.”
11. “Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.”
12. “Coquetry is the champagne of love.”
13. “There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.”
14. “To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.”
15. “A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.”
