Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Even women are perfect at the outset.