To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.