Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.