It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Everything that is exact is short.

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.