Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.