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

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.