If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is