Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.