Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.