When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.