The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.