Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?