To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.