He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

Good-humor is always a success.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.