One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.