An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.